New paradigms of pneumatological ecclesiology brought about by new prophetic churches within South African Pentecostalism

Verbum et Ecclesia

 
 
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Title New paradigms of pneumatological ecclesiology brought about by new prophetic churches within South African Pentecostalism
 
Creator Kgatle, Mookgo S.
 
Subject Theology; Pentecostalism classical Pentecostalism; new prophetic churches; ecclessiology; African-initiated churches; pneumatology
Description Pneumatological ecclesiology has caught the interest of many Pentecostal theologians, especially in the three main sub-traditions of Pentecostalism, that is, classical Pentecostalism (later CP), Pentecostal African Independent Churches (later PAIC) and charismatics. There is however a research gap in studying pneumatological ecclesiology in the new prophetic churches (later NPCs). Therefore, the study of pneumatological ecclesiology in light of the NPCs in South Africa is pivotal, groundbreaking and cutting-edge. The challenge of course to such a study is the existence of many ecclesiologies within the sub-traditions of Pentecostalism stated above. To avoid this challenge, a summary of pneumatological ecclesiology in other sub-traditions shall be given but with a special focus on new paradigms in NPCs. The argument is that the pneumatological ecclesiology amongst NPCs in South Africa is very much different in praxis from the ecclesiology of the three main sub-traditions of Pentecostalism. The aim of this article was to demonstrate the existence of the lived ecclesiology, highlight the challenges and propose a balanced pneumatological ecclesiology amongst NPCs in South Africa.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article is an interdisciplinary study between missiology and practical theology. It studies the practical theological theme of ecclesiology within the streams of a missiological trend of Pentecostalism in order to highlight the new paradigms of pneumatological ecclesiology.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2020-06-04
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Literary Analysis; observation
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Identifier 10.4102/ve.v41i1.2053
 
Source Verbum et Ecclesia; Vol 41, No 1 (2020); 6 pages 2074-7705 1609-9982
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage South Africa 21st century Pentecostal ecclesiology
Rights Copyright (c) 2020 Mookgo S. Kgatle https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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